All procedures in this guide are for use on the Oracle Solaris
10 Operating System.

A global cluster is composed only of one or more global-cluster voting nodes
and optionally, zero or more global-cluster non-voting nodes. A global cluster can optionally
also include LINUX OS, or native brand, non-global zones that are not nodes,
but high-availability containers (as resources). A zone cluster requires a global cluster. For
general information about zone clusters, see the Oracle Solaris Cluster Concepts Guide.

A zone cluster is composed only of one or more cluster brand, voting
nodes. A zone cluster depends on, and therefore requires, a global cluster. A
global cluster does not contain a zone cluster. You cannot configure a zone
cluster without a global cluster. A zone cluster has, at most, one zone
cluster node on a machine. A zone-cluster node continues to operate only as
long as the global-cluster voting node on the same machine continues to operate.
If a global-cluster voting node on a machine fails, all zone-cluster nodes on
that machine fail as well.